EFFECT OF STATUTORY CONDITIONS ON RATES.
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A well-attended meeting of hauliers from the southern half of the Cambs. and Ely Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association was recently held in Saffron Walden, when the chair was taken by Mr. G. W. Irwin, the honorary secretary, in the absence of Mr. 1-1. A. Newport, chairman of the area.
The meeting was called at the request of a body of hauliers operating in the Bishop's Stortford to Saffron Walden area, so that rates might be discussed, because it was felt that many hauliers were operating at unremunerative figures to the detriment of the industry as a whole.
Mr. P. J. Anthers, secretary of the Eastern Area, explained how the various provisions of the Road and Rail Traffic Act affected the question of rates. He said that nowhere in the Act was there any provision for rates to be fixed in a direct way, but it was -" obvious that, by means of the statutory conditions—vehicle fitness, hours, loads, standard wages, etc.—that hauliers would, in future, be operating under conditions more nearly alike, and would, therefore, have to work at approximately similar rates. Any serious lowering of a remunerative rate would automatically bring its own punishment.